Sequential processing is also a core concept in the theory of a global workspace [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}:
[5]} discusses that Dehaene's workspace has
extremely limited capacity (“the central bottleneck”) and that the mind can be conscious of only one or
a few items or events, although these might be quickly varying.
In cognitive computational neuroscience, the general notion is that parallel multitasking likely is an illusion. Even working memory is assumed to be able to only store three to four items at a time [6]}.
The sequential processing would also contribute to a potential solution of the binding problem [7]}, since the decoding focuses on concepts in a serial fashion and associations between activities in the representation layer and the index layer are well defined. The importance of sampling is also recognized in [3]} in the context of conscious perception.
For example, the author states that “... consciousness is a slow sampler”.
